TODAY, as FrontPageMagazine.com unveils its first annual "Hate Crime Hall of
Shame," we extend our thanks to MTV for providing our chief inspiration. Had
it not been for MTV's high-profile "Fight for your Rights" campaign last
January, pushing for hate-crime legislation, we might never have felt the
need to fight for our rights by posting the other side of the hate-crime
story on our Web site. MTV's campaign is now long forgotten, yet it lives on
as a sobering reminder of how major media aid and abet the crackpot schemes
of the left.

In January, MTV broke from its regular schedule to air 18 commercial-free
hours of programming about hate crimes.

The campaign opened with a documentary about the Matthew Shepard murder
titled, "Anatomy of a Hate Crime," followed by an MTV News special on hate
crimes and a "scroll" of hundreds of names of hate-crime victims.

"It is shocking in 2001 that hate crimes still happen on a daily basis,"
said MTV spokesman Brian Graden. "While 90 percent of our viewers
overwhelmingly recognize that discrimination is a serious problem facing our
country today, fewer than five percent will acknowledge their own bias," he
said.

But who, exactly, is committing those hate crimes? And who are these people
who are failing "to acknowledge their own bias"?

MTV's choice of programming gives the impression that those hate crimes are
perpetrated mainly by Angry White Males roving the otherwise quaint
countryside of places like Wyoming and Texas, hunting gays and blacks as
they would deer and quail.

That was the conclusion of Liz Swasey of the Media Research Center. She
argued that "Anatomy of a Hate Crime" and the lengthy scroll of names were
little more than left-wing agitprop.

"If campaign finance reform passes, this sort of thing will be banned," said
Swasey. "It was. an infomercial that toed the line of [gay rights groups
such as] GLAAD and GLSEN."

She argued that MTV's interminable scroll of victims was designed to
exaggerate the frequency of hate crimes.

"They tried to make the problem seem massive," Swasey said. She suggested
that the network could have given that attention to any other problem facing
the nation. "Why not run 17 hours of rape victims?"

Media spectacles like MTV's are largely responsible for the "phenomenon" of
hate crimes, which has received attention far out of proportion to its
grounding in real life. In 1999 (the most recent year for which statistics
are available) the total number of hate crime offenses for all bias
motivations (9,301) was less than one-thousandth of one percent of the total
number of criminal offenses (11,635,149) in America. Do these figures really
justify the creation of a hate crime caste system? Hardly. Yet with more
than nine million mostly young people tuning into at least one segment of
MTV's "Fight for your Rights" extravaganza, hate crimes will likely remain a
national obsession for at least a generation to come.

The people beaming this material to our nation's youth aren't objective
bystanders. MTV has long been solidly in the left-wing camp, and has spent
years promoting leftist candidates and issues.

MTV's "Rock the Vote" and "Choose or Lose" campaigns helped catapult Bill
Clinton into the White House, and gave support to the Democratic ticket in
other elections around the country. The network threw two inaugural balls
for Clinton, while failing to do the same for Republican George W. Bush when
he became President earlier this year. Meanwhile over the years, the network
has harnessed the airwaves to drum up support for left-wing causes such as
the Motor Voter bill, and now, hate crime legislation.

The "Fight for your Rights" campaign itself was an omnium gatherem of
professional grievance hustlers. The list of "partner" organizations
included the Anti-Defamation League, the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight
Education Network, and the radical homosexual Human Rights Campaign.

Indeed, for all MTV's hand wringing about people failing to "acknowledge
their own discrimination," they sure have plenty of bias of their own. The
clear message of their campaign is that certain groups deserve special legal
protections against crime, and other groups don't. To corporate bigwigs at
MTV, some lives clearly mean more than others.

FrontPage's "Hate Crime Hall of Shame" is designed to help counteract the
hate-filled hogwash of MTV and its allies on the radical left. Yet as MTV
nurses an entire generation of young people on this mindset and shows them
the way to the polls, it's clear that the advocates of real tolerance and
equality will have a tough fight ahead.

I remember seeing that hate crimes thing on MTV a little while ago. This was nothing but an attempt to stir up hatred for whites in minority communities while masquerading as a public service announcement. MTV is so far to the left that they're over the edge, and they don't even try to hide that fact. Just in case you don't remember that Hate Crimes special, I'll refresh your memory. Basically what it was, was there were a bunch of hate crimes written on the screen in text form, read by mostly ****** rap artists in typical ebonics jive speech, where the perpetrator was almost always white, and the victim was either gay or a minority. This was shown after the propoganda movie "Anatomy of a hate crime" which which MTV produced about the young sodomite, Matthew Shepard. For all the hype given to this story, it was nothing more than a simple mugging gone bad. I don't think those guys even meant to kill the faggot, and if they refered to him as a fag, its simply because that what he was

Originally posted by Aldaris850 Where's the REAL hatred? It's against the White man. The Media's master act was to get the hatred for us Whites going. Don't act surprised that MTV pulls this bullcrap.

I agree with you Aldaris. Has anyone seen their latest "Fight for your rights" ads? They're so fanatically anti-white its absolutely mind boggling. When the WTC bombing happened, and thousands of white Americans lay dead, who did MTV stick up for? yep, thats right, the muds. They were more worried about protecting Arab muds who live in the US, rather than consoling the thousands of whites who lost their lives. I thought I was gonna have to reach for the barf bucket